Monday, 30 June 2008

It may not be crazy high-tech architecture, but there's something about this Chilean home hanging over the Pacific that has me glued to the screen with a mixed feeling of complete awe, peace, and envy. The materials, the clean design, the floor plan, the breathtaking views, all of it, make it the perfect place I want to live in.Divided in three floors, Casa 11 Mujeres (House 11 Women, named like that because it was designed for a family with 11 daughters, ages four to twenty) was built with bare concrete with wood floors, glass, and steel on a 45 degree slope looking down Cachagua beach, 87 miles north of Santiago de Chile. The bottom floor contains shared spaces, while the second level has the daughters bedrooms—all overlooking the sea—, and the top floor has the master bedroom, kitchen, living room, and dining room.

Friday, 27 June 2008

Currently a shareholder in the New Jersey Nets basketball team, Jay-Z is looking to expand his range of investments into the baseball world - he now wants to own shares in the New York Yankees.

Jay-Z told London's Time Out magazine, "Someone told me yesterday that someone else had a piece of the New York Yankees - 'We wanna talk to you, yadda yadda yadda.' I mean, I love the Yankees so I'm in the middle of following that through, but sometimes it comes to be nothing.

"That record is real it's coming," Snoop Dogg said during an interview today (June 25) on Big Boy's Neighborhood. "You know me, I was starting to doubt it myself and then I went up in there and he played so much music for me it knocked my head off."

Snoop Dogg confirmed the fabled, decade-long project was finished and that the Doctor was selecting tracks for the album.

"I see what he got them waiting for, it's on and poppin," Snoop Dogg said. "He got records, he got heat."

Dr. Dre will also sit in the producer's seat for Snoop Dogg's upcoming album.

"Yea he's doing my next album. I got the title and everything," Snoop confirmed without revealing the album's title.

“I’m really excited about this project. Timbaland is like family to me, so it’s always great to work with family and I think this is going to be my best album yet. I’m happy to call Mosley Music Group my new home.”

According to reports,the singer’s new album will be released before the end of the year. Timbaland will produce the record,Justin Timberlake and Keri Hilson will appear on it.

Tuesday, 24 June 2008

“Jacob the Jeweler” was sentenced Tuesday to 2 1/2 years in federal prison for lying to investigators looking into a multistate drug ring.

Jacob Arabov, 43, pleaded guilty in October to falsifying records and giving false statements as part of a deal with federal prosecutors, who asked U.S. District Judge Avern Cohn to impose a minimum sentence of three years and one month.

But Cohn decided to shave off seven months from that recommendation, citing Arabov’s extensive charity work. Cohn also ordered “Jacob the Jeweler” to pay a $50,000 fine and to make a $2 million forfeiture payment to the government. (DAMN IT!)

Authorities accused Arabov and others of conspiring to launder drug profits for the “Black Mafia Family,” a ring that operated out of the Detroit area beginning in the early 1990s.

The seven-year investigation resulted in the indictments of Arabov and at least 41 other people, federal authorities say.

They say about 1,100 pounds of cocaine and $19 million in cash and other assets were seized beginning in 2000.

This is a statement issued by Mr. Collipark about the beef between Ice-T and Soulja Boy.

"It's a sad day when a 40 year old black man who means so much to the foundation of hip hop goes in on a 17 year old black kid in the name of selling a record. I really looked up to the accomplishments of Ice T. He went from being a skinny pimp with a perm rapping over gangster beats to one of the most talented actors to be birthed from hip hop. I can't understand why instead of reaching out to Soulja Boy behind the scene and having a talk with him about his views on Soulja's influence, he chose the route of dissing him. On top of all that, he wasn't that good a rapper himself, but he stood for hip hop. Therefore, I had love for him. What's even worse, the blogs that i've seen on the internet don't see anything wrong with his attack. It's not even about music at this point. He is a disgrace as a black man. That's sick. That's the state of shit in the world right now. There is no sense of right or wrong anymore. It's every man for himself. Good luck y'all!"

The rumor mill has been buzzing about a possible new rap beef since some lyrics of G-Unit song "You So Tough" hit the net.

As MissInfo previously reported, 50 Cent seemingly took aim at T.I. on the track, accusing him of getting a sweetheart deal in his federal gun case because he's a snitch.

On the track off the upcoming G-Unit album Terminate On Sight, 50 raps:

"Nowaways this rap sh*t ain't adding up / How n*ggas get caught with 10 machine guns, only get 12 months? / Oo-weee, don't talk to me / If you talking to him, you talking to them.../ I got the best lawyers that money can buy / they say at best they woulda got me 10 or maybe 9 / I said, how do you explain how the homie breezed? / They said, you keep your mouth shut or you eat the cheese."

T.I. responded, without really responding at all when SOHH's Atlanta blogger Gyant caught up with him in the A recently.

"He politely told me that it's unlike Fiddy to say stuff in songs and not just say it directly, and that he really doesn't want to perpetuate any negativity, so he wasn't going to respond to it," Gyant said.

As previously reported, the self proclaimed King of the South is currently serving a year on house arrest and putting in at least 1,000 hours of community service. He'll also serve a year in jail and pay a $100,000 fine behind his guilty plea in the federal gun case.

T-Pain, for the first time, spoke about a forthcoming ‘Best of Both Worlds’ type project with none other than Lil’ Wayne. With a current working title of ‘He Raps, He Sings’, the pair have already recorded a few tracks for the record, however will enter the studio in October to record the bulk of the LP. According to T-Pain, Timbaland is being tapped to produce the majority of the project.

Lil Wayne now has official numbers to back up his bragging — the rapper’s new CD has sold a spectacular 1 million copies its first week.

“Tha Carter III” is easily the best selling first week of the year, according to Nielsen SoundScan figures. Even Kanye West’s “The Graduation” didn’t eclipse that mark in its first week last year (though it was only about 50,000 copies short).

Monday, 16 June 2008

Bobby Brown’s son Landon has revealed his former stepmother, Whitney Houston, treated him like an employee when he went to stay with the former couple. Landon Brown says Houston was a “nightmare” to grow up with, refusing to accept him as a member of her family. He tells the National Enquirer that his former stepmom insisted he slept in a guest house when he came to stay - and refused to let him spend time with her daughter - his half-sister - Bobbi Kristina.

He says, “Whitney and I never really got along. She didn’t necessarily hate me, but she wouldn’t really speak to me either. In Whitney’s eyes, I was the stepchild.” He adds, “She decided to turn me into one of her security personnel. I was a teenager but I was walking around dressed up in all black with a Security shirt and she’d have me work for her. I was just another one of her staff.”

The wife of Grammy-nominated rap artist Snoop Dogg was arrested in Fullerton early Saturday on suspicion of drunk driving, police said. Shante Broadus, 32, was stopped by police near Highland and Orangethorpe avenues about 12:15 a.m. and arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence, said Fullerton Police Lt. Craig Brower. Broadus, a resident of Sherman Oaks, was taken to Fullerton City Jail, where she was booked, issued a citation to appear in court and released, Brower said. He said Broadus would appear in court next month. Brower could not comment on why officers stopped Broadus, the vehicle she was driving or whether other people were in the vehicle.

Angry, tired fans who had to wait into the wee hours of the morning for Kanye West to finally take the stage at the Bonnaroo festival in Tennessee jeered him for his two-hour late appearance yesterday.Armed with glow sticks, the mob booed the rapper, chanted "Kanye sucks" and pelted the glow-in-the-dark spears at the empty stage, while others just returned to their sleeping bags, giving up on Ye, according to BBC News.Problems taking down the set for Pearl Jam, who'd gone on right before and played an hour late, plus difficulty getting up Ye's glow-in-the-dark backdrop - so his space ship could crash land on stage -- were blamed for the delay.Over 150 eclectic acts performed at the four-day festival, including comedian Chris Rock.Later on Sunday, pedal steel guitarist Robert Randolph criticized West on stage for slighting his fans, egging on more "Kanye sucks" chants from the crowd.

Friday, 13 June 2008

A Chicago jury has acquitted US singer R Kelly of all 14 charges of child pornography against him.He was found not guilty of making an explicit sex video that prosecutors had said showed him having sex with a girl as young as 13.Both Mr Kelly and the alleged victim, now 23, denied they were the people shown on the tape, which the jury saw.If found guilty, he had faced up to 15 years in prison. His hits include She's Got That Vibe and I Believe I Can Fly.He was arrested in 2002 after the video was leaked to the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper.The tape, 26-minutes long, showed a man having sex with an underage girl.The prosecution's chief witness was a woman who said she had had three-way sex with Mr Kelly and the alleged victim from the video, Associated Press news agency reported.The defence argued that the man in the tape did not have a large mole on his back as does Mr Kelly, and that the tape could have been doctored.

According to our good friends at Allhiphop, multi-platinum producer Scott Storch is wanted by the Miami-Dade police after missing a court appearance today over about $46,000 in unpaid child support to his son Jalen. In other news a car Scott purchased for his other son Steven was recently repossessed. No one knows where Scott Storch is currently…and to top it off his attorney Guy Spiegelman mis saying Scott, also owes another $511,839 in back taxes

BMW Group Design has set another deepened objective for designing new cars that moves today’s consumers and their demand for enhanced utility and more versatility to the top of their agenda. An innovative concept introduced by BMW Group Design prepares the ground for this new approach: the GINA (Geometry and Functions In “N” Adaptions) principle grants more freedom for car design. It allows the creation of products with a design and functional range that express individuality and meet the wide variety of requirements of those who are using them.

The Planet of the Apes actor Mark Wahlberg wants his soccer star neighbor David Beckham to take his family and “go back to the U.K.” - because the constant stream of paparazzi is ruining his life. The Beckhams moved to Mark’s hood last year in Los Angeles. Since then there has been a swarm of photographers constantly perched outside the front door of Mark’s house.

According to Mark:

“That f***er lives down the street from me, man! He has to go back to the U.K., because he has the paparazzi all over my house!”